“In order to competently achieve the beingness of an executive, one would have to have the technology of how to organize and would have to have, as well, a concept of the ideal scene of an organization in order to compare it to any existing scene and would have to be familiar with the technology required in that specific organization by which it produces the products necessary for its survival.”

“To plan out any action one has to be able to visualize its sequence of flows and the changes that occur at each point. One has to be able to see where a particle (paper, body, money) comes in and where it leaves.

“One has to be able to spot any point it will halt and mend that part of the flow or handle it."

“Whether one is planning for the affluence of the Appalachian Mountains or a new loading shed closer to the highway, the gap between the plan and the actuality will be found to be lack of administrative know-how."

“When we look at organization in its most simple form, when we seek certain key actions or circumstances that make organization work, when we need a very simple, very vital rundown to teach people that will produce results, we find only a few points we need to stress.

“Any group or organism or individual is somewhat interdependent upon its neighbors, on other groups and individuals. It cannot however put them right unless it itself has reached some acceptable level of approach to its ideal scenes."

“The conflict amongst organisms, individuals and groups does not necessarily add up to ‘the survival of the fittest,’ whatever that meant. It does however mean that in such conflict the best chance of survival goes to the individual, organism or group that best approaches and maintains its ideal scene, lesser ideal scenes, statistic and lesser statistics.”

“Marketing includes all actions from before the beginning of the production right on through to its use by the customer and its word-of-mouth promotion by the public. Your first step is you’ve got to have a product to market that will market. And you have to groom that product up so you can market it."

“From the first moment a product is conceived, much less produced, Marketing has to be in there with surveys to establish the design and use of the product, and it carries on through at every stage to make sure that it will eventually sell and get good word-of-mouth promotion.”

“The actions of an organization can all be classified under the heading of particle motion and change.

To analyze a post or a department or an organization, make a list of each particle it handles (whether types of bodies, types of communication or any other item) and follow each item from the point it enters the post or department or organization to the point it exits.”

“A good job, skilled abilities, bountiful harvests, possessions: these are goals. There are very finite goals for the happy man in every day of the week, as well as the big goals toward which he directs his efforts. His happiness does not come from the attainment of the goals, but from overcoming obstacles on the way to those goals.”

“The continuance of an organization and its leaders can be said to be entirely dependent upon the skill, training and integrity of those who handle the administrative lines, details and contacts of the group.”

“The best organization is one which has a being over it, methods of working out its problems, basic actions and a good desirable product. It adapts itself to its environment or surroundings or conditions of operation so as to expand to greater or lesser degree.

“To expand, any company needs a demanded product and will and skill to produce and deliver it. It can be a service or an item.

“If a company has a demanded product and will and skill to produce and deliver it, it must organize to expand. If it does, it will survive. If it organizes to stay level or seeks to grow smaller, it will perish.”

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